Rebecca Silver, PhD, is a clinical psychologist at the Early Childhood Collaborative of Bradley Hospital.
Dr. Silver's professional interests focus on providing intervention, consultation, and professional development services for young children and their caregivers, supervising early childhood-serving professionals, and working with state agencies to develop early childhood systems of care. She is also involved in various efforts to evaluate the effectiveness of these services/systems via local program evaluation efforts and federal research funding. She is the director of SUCCESS, Rhode Island's Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (IECMHC) program in early care and education settings.
In addition to her work at Bradley, Dr. Silver supervises psychology trainees associated with The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
A graduate of Brown University, she earned her doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Oregon. She completed a clinical internship in child clinical psychology at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, and a postdoctoral fellowship in early childhood mental health at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
Locations
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- Post Graduate: University of Oregon
- Internship: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
- Fellowship: The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Publications
Research Interests
Early childhood mental health; developmental psychopathology; development, dissemination and implementation of evidence based practices in community settings; program evaluation.
Selected Publications
Silver, R. B., Beers, M. M., Godoy, L., & Dickstein, S. (in press). Addressing barriers and limitations of developmental screening in community contexts: Moving beyond the red flag. In R. DelCarmen-Wiggins & A.S. Carter (Ed.), Handbook of Infant, Toddler, and Preschool Mental Health Assessment: Second Edition. New York: Oxford University Press.
Silver, R. B., Measelle, J. R., Armstrong, J. M., & Essex, M. J. (2010). The impact of parents, child care providers, teachers, and peers on early externalizing trajectories. Journal of School Psychology, 48, 555-583.
Silver, R. B., & Eddy, J. M. (2006). Research based prevention programs and practices for delivery in schools. In K. Dodge, T. Dishion, & J. Lansford (Eds.) Deviant Peer Influence in Programs for Youth (pp. 253-277). Guilford Press.
Silver, R. B., Measelle, J., Essex, M., & Armstrong, J.M. (2005). Trajectories of externalizing behavior problems in the classroom: Contributions of child characteristics, family characteristics, and the teacher-child relationship during the school transition. Journal of School Psychology, 43, 39-60.